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In Trump’s view, the U.S. led global order that structured international relations for more than a half century no longer serves, if it ever did, U.S. interests and deserves a quick burial. “Trump,” writes University of California political scientist Stephen…
To win against the MAGA onslaught, democracy not only has to be defended, but also deepened and extended to new areas of socio-economic life. Formulas of the past no longer resonate to millions in the present nor address the problems…
The characterization of the Democratic Party as a party sitting on its hands, like a modern day Nero, is neither accurate nor helpful. Implicit in the characterization is that the Democrats are of one mind and in the pockets of…
Most democratic minded people expected an assault, organized by Trump and his closest advisors, on the federal government and democratic rights — immigrant rights in the first place. What stuns, and increasingly outrages them, is the fast pace and broad…
America has always, even on its better days, had an illiberal strain, as brilliantly elucidated in the recent book by Stephen Hahn: Illiberal America: A History. But the present assault, orchestrated by Trump and MAGA, on the political and social…